Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam?

It’s called influence manipulation. And, as data scientist Joseph Turian said during a presentation at the O’Reilly Strata conference on Wednesday, “It’s a pretty serious issue and it’s also pretty hard to catch.” (Turian will also be moderating a panel on next-generation databases at our Structure: Data conference in New York next month, but I’m sure he’ll gladly talk black-hat data science if you catch him in the hall.)